Comic Quotes

I wasn't at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality.

It was very natural that people just think of me as a comic actor.

I mean, I guess I started during the comedy boom, so it was literally like, on Sunday you could decide you wanted to be a comic, and on Monday, you could be on stage.

From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers.

The people that are running the bulk of the comic shops in North America aren't business people and they don't understand sales. They don't understand good product.

I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me.

As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

Sometimes people try to read into my strip and find out what my state of mind is. And I can say if I'm in a good mood, generally the comic strip starts out in a good mood, but the punchline is very negative and sour.

Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful.

Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.

I didn't realize House would be the central character, more the bitter comic relief appearing occasionally. I relish his wounded nature - the lameness, the scarred Byronic hero.

On a shelf above my computer are five letters that spell out W-R-I-T-E. Just in case I forget why I'm there. I also have 'Wonder Woman' paraphernalia from when I wrote five issues of the comic, and pictures of my husband and kids.

I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.

I have the show because I'm insecure. It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.

Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.

Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book.

As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive.

I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.

At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day.

You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.

A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they are.

Twitter is the most amazing medium for a comedy writer. I can't get in every idea I want on the show no matter how hard I try to bully the other writers, so it's a way of me getting out other comic ideas and immediately getting feedback.

The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time. I was drawn to it because of the power of the writing, which gives me the actor a chance to explore many facets of myself.

I've always wanted to play more comic parts.

I had a great time making the last movie, 'Eclipse.' We shot my back-story stuff from the 1930's. But I was waiting for 'Breaking Dawn' because I love the relationship Rosalie has with Jacob and the rest of her family and Bella. She also provides comic relief.

George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the expression.